Defense Ministry experts predict 300 Israeli fatalities in war with Iran, Syria

Just like the Japanese attack on US ships docked at Pearl Harbor in 1941. Total destruction, resulting in complete incapacitation of the enemy in that region. Unfortunately we all know how the rest of the war went.

This war they speak of would not be a short skirmis, and it could easily involve proxies like Russia and China. I don't think Israelis really want to have another Vietnam war in their back yard.

if this is true ,why to wait ,go for war now.....

Why do most Israelis need a war? Is it so hard to live in peace with your neighbours?

Netanyahu is perfectly correct. Imagine if Israel had not bombed Osirak (against American & European objections), those Scuds that hit Israel in the Gulf War in 1991 would have had Nuclear warheads on them. And the Ayatollahs are 100X more fanatical & extreme than Saddam ever was ! And who benefitted the most from Osirak attack ? Obviously America, they were able to throw Saddam out from Kuwait & invade Iraq easily. If Saddam had a few nukes, he would have been the Emperor of the Middle-East by now !

Better high explosive now than nuclear warheads later. One can live with the former, but the land will be contaminated after the latter. Nip the Ayatollahs in the bud ! Iran already has enough 20% enriched Uranium for 4 nukes (just 1 is enough to wipe out Israel). Attack Iran now !

America never came to help during WWII despite knowing millions of Jews were being exterminated., they only entered the war when Japan attacked them. America talked peace when Saddam was building Osirak reactor, but after Israel did the hard work, was able to invade & take over Iraq easily. America is 10,000 miles from Iran, Israel is next door. America is more worried about their economy, Israel their survival. Israel - do what has to be done....before its too late.....Attack NOW !

No -- they don't care about you.

P5.1 & Ashton are fooling Israel. Moscow was supposed to be the final talks, but now it seems to be getting extended indefinitely. By the time these P5.1 scoundrels finish their "meetings, consultations, expert-level, deputy-level, confidence building measures, yada yada" and other such time-wasting tactics, mushrooms clouds will be rising over Tel Aviv and Israel. The Iranian centrifuges are spinning non-stop and nuke work is going on at breakneck speed. The Zone of Immunity has almost been reached. Its time for Israel to act, before its too late. Obama, the Europeans and Ashton can jump into the nearest sewer.

These crazies are gambling with your lives. Do not START a war.

So what makes you think 200,000 rockets are going to cause only 300 deaths? These aren't the Hamas rockets, where 10,000 over 10 years doesn't even kill as much as the Mt. Carmel fire.

and then everyone punish you

Now human can rate how many lives their madness can take away.

Iron Dome can't even guarantee success against rockets fired from Gaza, let alone missiles fired from Iran and their proxy states. That would overwhelm any defense system, whether Israeli or American.

quickly which is optimal and the idea, but uncertain. If Israel can roll up Hezbollah up to the Litani in 72 hours, maybe. And that just refers to Hezbollah and its missiles and their ability to launch them. The ground war won't be a problem for the IDF, but the underground part is dicey. No doubt that there are now all kinds of interesting IDF systems for use underground.

the terror state of iran and its terror proxies refuse to give up their goal to acquire nuclear weapons. they refuse to renounce terror. these are psychopaths who are willing to sacrifice many of their own people in order to murder jews. indeed, they slaughter their own people, as we saw during the uprising in iran and the current slaughter in syria. thus israel has no choice in this matter. the enemy has made the choice for israel.

Judging by the usual kill-ratio where the IDF is concerned, the number of Iranians killed will be about 30,000. Presumably the Defence Ministry experts find that reasonable.

Winograd 2 will not be kind to those in power.

Hope for them try aren't because otherwise I feel they're underestimating their opponent's power and are in for a he'll of a surprise.

It would be much uglier and they know that. How Manu US casualties and is THAT a consideration?

As always the prediction will be wrong..... remember the crying soldier in the Lebanon border?

I never bought the apocalyptic scenarios of tens of thousands of rockets raining down on Israel from three directions. All the sides involved (Israel, Hezbollah, and Iran) had an interest in exaggerating Iran's and Hezbollah's military power. Israel wanted to substantiate the existential threat, and the other two wanted to look invincible to their followers. Actually the deterrent to Israel is world public opinion and the sheer fruitlessness of attacking Iran.

Last time the defense ministry predicted 500 fatalities, has something improved?

If Israel is attacked it must respond attacking their military facilities first, kill all the important polictical decision makers then, and third destroy all of their infrastructure (water, electicity, waste, etc) so the whole country wiill suffer and they will rebel against their goverments. If all of these does not work and casualities get bigger in Israel so Israel should wipe out of the map these countries together with their population and not wait until it happen to Israel.

Syria's FM explicitly said that in the event of an outside attack on Syria that they would use chemical weapons against the attacker. I strongly strongly doubt that the 300 estimate takes the FM's promise into account. While I do not think there is a better solution than attack if Syria were to collapse or try to transfer the wepaons, citing a esitmate of 300 is almost a come-on for an attack. The repercussions should be taken much more seriously, even if in the end the attack must take place either way.

allows the US to handle Iran. I just don't think Israel has the capability with small planes to do little more than light damage to Iranian nuclear capability. With Hezbollah I can only hope that Israel has nape, daisy cutters and a lot of cheap rockets of their own. I think the sanctions have a chance of rotting Iran frm within and they need to be given a chance.